Tag: legislation

Indonesia: new legislation effectively criminalizes being gay by banning sex outside marriage, punishable with up to a year in jail

  Indonesia: new legislation effectively criminalizes being gay by banning sex outside marriage, punishable with up to a year in jail Indonesia’s parliament has (December 6) unanimously approved a new criminal code that outlaws sex outside marriage and restricts political and religious freedoms, in a shocking setback to human rights in the world’s third-largest democracy. Sex outside marriage will carry a jail term of up to a year...